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To think families that have more vehicles than people and no drive are selfish twats!

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HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 28/03/2019 18:58

Yes I'm looking at you Mr and Mrs Silver cars across the road. There are only two of you, you have no drive and yet you have now got 3 cars (they acquired a new one today) and a van (all of which are silver hence the name).

What the fuck do you need 4 vehicles for you can only physically be driving 2 at a time!

We live on a road which like many others across the country has difficulties regarding parking, only a few houses have drives. So why would you think it is reasonable to have 4 vehicles. You are pretty much ensuring that your neighbours have difficulty parking and yes I think you are selfish twats why don't you move to a house with a drive!

Does anyone else have such entitled car collecting neighbours?

Sorry for the rant but they do my head in. Every night moving their cars to be as close to the house as possible. As soon as anyone leaves the space seems to be filled with one of their cars. Angry

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Order654 · 28/03/2019 20:41

I don't understand why people need two cars and a work van. BIL has a little work van, they also have a very nice family car. BIL uses the van for work (and fishing), at the weekend the van stays in the garage and they use the family car. If BIL needs to go somewhere without SIL and the DCs and she needs the car, he takes his van. If SIL and the DCs are staying at home and he's just popping out (or vice versa) the person popping out takes the car. Do you all just love paying insurance???*

My partners work van is not supposed to be used for general driving, just for work as it’s owned by the company and has a gps tracker on it. They cover all the insurance etc so he doesn’t pay any extra for that.

So we have a car each because if I’m out doing X and he wants to go out he can’t so he has his own car.

I don’t pay insurance as it’s a mobility car and it’s all covered under that so the only car that we pay insurance for is his car.

The other car we own needs to be sold but we haven’t got around to it yet. That one is sorn and parked on the drive because of that.

3 cars & 1 van and we only pay insurance for one.

Dotty1970 · 28/03/2019 20:41

Should

cheesenpickles · 28/03/2019 20:45

There's a family on the road near us that have a couple, two kids and their partners all living with them (so 6 people). Each of them has a car, and the dad and two guys each have a works van they park at hone. That's 9 vehicles for a 3 bed terraced with no drive. They also tore down their garage (which wasn't used for cars Hmm) and installed a deck with a hot tub in.

Envy
LadyHonoriaDedlock · 28/03/2019 20:50

We're a family of 5 and have no cars. Live in a city with buses, taxis etc. Mind you the bikes.... aaarghhh. Eleven bikes. (Tandem, individual bikes, cargo bikes, spare bike) If we had to park them on the road I think people would lynch us!

gubbsywubbsy · 28/03/2019 20:50

Yep .. we have neighbours with about 7 cars ( lots of kids ) and they park all along the road . Doesn't affect us as we have a drive but imagine pisses everyone else off and I don't understand why they don't buy a house with a big drive .. would do my head in not knowing if I can park when I get home every day. !!

givemesteel · 28/03/2019 20:56

I think it should be illegal to park a campervan/caravan/motor home in a street. That could seriously obstruct someone's light into their house. Very selfish but I guess it's legal so people don't care.

Rockbird · 28/03/2019 20:58

YANBU. Also live on a terraced road and it's like we've won the lottery if we can park nearer than three streets away. Would love to move but can't afford it, sick to death of it.

What really grinds my gears is the couple opposite who have a driveway but park both cars on the street leaving their driveway lovely and unsullied. That truly pisses me off.

Everytimeref · 28/03/2019 21:05

Definitely think it should be illegal to park a motorhome on the street. We live in a cul du sac and the couple opposite own a massive motorhome , makes it extremely difficult to turn around.

AFPH123 · 28/03/2019 21:06

Selfishness is rife nowadays unfortunately. Most people don’t give a fuck anymore as long as they are ok.

Kennehora · 28/03/2019 21:08

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MsTSwift · 28/03/2019 21:18

Annoying. We are a smug one car family though

Taswama · 28/03/2019 21:18

All the parked cars and vans make it much harder to cross the roads with kids as well. Funny how the private motor car dominates public space.

ivykaty44 · 28/03/2019 21:23

Each car gets more expensive- though it’s still cheap for storage considering land costs

To think families that have more vehicles than people and no drive are selfish twats!
Wallsbangers · 28/03/2019 21:25

Yes, this. Terraced streets here - one neighbour has a huge SUV and a huge work van, only the dad drives but at least he moves both of them unlike another neighbour who has two cars but neither car ever seems to get driven.

Mum2jenny · 28/03/2019 21:32

As long as the vehicles are taxed and insured, people can have as many vehicles as they like (as long as there's no restrictions on parking.. 2 permits per household or similar).

I just don't get the angst about this, if you can't park near your house, you park near it and walk.

BrusselPout · 28/03/2019 21:32

I feel your frustration OP, we have a neighbour like that, it's just him and his son and at last count they had 6 cars and a van (which hasn't moved in the 3 years we've lived here, it's parked on the road and gets used as a shed). The most ridiculous thing is the dad always takes the bus so there is absolutely no need to take up so much space on the road with so many cars. We have a drive so it doesn't affect us, but a lot of the neighbours struggle to park anywhere near our road

gt84 · 28/03/2019 21:45

I don’t know how many vehicles each of my neighbours own but I know there are 34 homes in our road and 31 parking spaces. If I take the car out of an evening there is NEVER anywhere to park when I arrive home meaning I end up parking around 10 mins walk away.
This evening I was out for 10 mins, dropping my son up the road as he was running late for football and when I got back there was no where to park. It was 7pm!

queenqueenqueen · 28/03/2019 21:48

Seem to be in the minority here but yes they are twats.

nokidshere · 28/03/2019 21:53

We live in a small cul de sac. We have 3 cars, 1 on the drive, 1 on the street and the teenager parks his somewhere wherever he can get a space (but is taking it to uni in Sept). Next door are an elderly couple, he drives but she doesn't, he has 4 cars and the only time they move is when he's moving them around to put different ones on his drive. Opposite them is another elderly couple, he drives but she doesn't, he has 2 cars (one that never gets used). Next to them is a lady with a daughter. They have 6 cars/vans between them. 2 on the tandem drive and the rest on the street. Because of the tandem drive they spent a great deal of their time moving the cars around. And next door to us on the other side have a drive that holds 3 cars but they have 2 and always leave one on the road.

So 5 houses have 17 cars between them. I park on the drive so it doesn't affect me directly but it's like living on a giant car park! I just don't understand having vehicles that aren't used.

dementedma · 28/03/2019 21:53

we have 3 cars - one belongs to work (me), and then Dh and dd have second hand cars. Dh needs his for commute to work (rural) and dd has mental health problems and needs hers to be able to get about to appointments etc.We live in an upstairs flat with no drive. Where are we supposed to park them?

lljkk · 28/03/2019 21:59

I was thinking today... what if cars couldn't ever be parked on roads but could only be parked in designated spaces (not on roads). How uncluttered our public spaces could be instead, how nice that could be.

*Exceptions for disabled & other specific groups. But honestly, I wouldn't leave anything else valuable of mine just sitting around on the road, would I.

Yubaba · 28/03/2019 22:41

Were we used to live one of the neighbours parked the cab of his HGV outside his house, it took up 3 spaces Angry
Our current neighbours have 5 cars and a van. I often come home to find one of them over my drive so I can’t get on so I have to park on the street. They seem completely unable to park further down the street and walk, they have to park exactly outside their house.

StillMedusa · 28/03/2019 23:07

We have 7 adults in the house and 5 cars. And no drive.Two travel together, one walks..the rest of us go in different directions at very different times.
My elderly neighbour (no car) is happy for us to park two on her drive as we do all her DIY, which helps. I hate it, but until my elder kids can afford to move out we have no alternative.

YouBumder · 28/03/2019 23:11

We have a couple along the road who have a car each and he has a work van, fine, except he parks the car in the drive or at his own house and the van right outside my house. It’s a parking space admittedly so we can’t stop him but presumably he doesn’t want to look out on his big ugly van so we have to instead. We’ve started trying to park there so he can’t get the van in but if we’re both out when he gets back with the van we’re screwed!

anniehm · 28/03/2019 23:19

My neighbours have 6 vehicles. No idea exactly who lives there apart from the parents (circa 50 years old) as they are Indian but they have 4 kids all are married and some live there. They sometimes park on the pavement (fully) so close to my drive I can't get out safely! So annoying, two cars max per house and where no street parking is possible (here) you must be able to park on your land.

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